Extracts from Nancy Blackett’s 2016 Logbook
BBC Radio Suffolk visits Nancy’s ‘Push the Boat Out’ open weekend at Woolverstone, and roving reporter Simon Warr is shown how to tie a bowline knot by Peter Willis…
Author: Swallows and Amazons
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Screen time more dangerous for children than activities in Swallows and Amazons, warn academics
Spending hours staring at screens is a more dangerous pastime than the perilous activities carried out by the children from Swallows and Amazons, academics have said…
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Swallows and Amazons Chapter XI: They seemed to know everything
In which we learn about centre boards, pilot books (I had to look them up), and the proper way to carry a heavy barrel.
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Keswick Film Festival to bring glamour to the Lakes once more
Over the course of the event, 30 films will be screened, including American classic Casablanca and Cumbrian favourite Swallows and Amazons . The film’s producer Nick Barton will host a Q&A session…
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Swallows and Amazons Chapter X: A treaty of offence and defence
This chapter is about making friends, and specifically, how to make friends when what you really want to do with your new friends is pretend to be enemies. It manages to illustrate this on several levels within not many pages, and it’s really quite clever.
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New director at the helm of Maddermarket Theatre’s artistic programme
Now he is preparing to direct four of the Maddermarket’s 2017 shows – Hay Fever, Swallows and Amazons , Nell Gwynn and The Wolves of Willoughby Chase…
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Swallows and Amazons Chapter IX: ‘Swallow has gone’
No cryptically whimisical title for this chapter. This is Serious Bizniss.
Poor John wakes up all of a muddle. I can’t quite tell whether he’s wishing that his story had stayed pottersome or hoping that it will turn into a thriller, and I’m not sure that he knows, either.
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Swallows and Amazons Chapter VIII: Red knitted caps, and no stockings
The plot thickens. Thickens like a sauce that you’ve been stirring patiently for half an hour, and you turn away from it for less than a minute. So far they’ve basically been pottering about, wittily sewing on buttons. Now there’s smoke, shaking of fists, and a mysterious disappearing pirate ship. You can hardly see for the foreshadowing.
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Arthur Ransome | Boats | Books | Events | Sailing | Swallows and Amazons
20, 50, 80 years on… Welcome to the New Year, and to Arthur Ransome’s East Coast…
This new year, 2017, will not only see the 20th anniversary of the Nancy Blackett Trust, but it will also be 80 years since the publication of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea“, and on a more sombre note, 50 years since Arthur Ransome died…